(AP) -- Safety and industry officials worry that there will be more deadly airline accidents traced to pilots who have lost their hands-on instincts as planes become ever more reliant on automation to navigate crowded skies.
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Aug 30, 2011
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(AP) -- An apartment complex near Colorado State University that used Facebook to advertise "the biggest pool party of the year'" got more than it bargained for - at least 2,000 people, most of them college students, showed ...
Internet
Aug 30, 2011
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Hurricane Irene left a trail of devastation and heavy rainfall in its wake from the Caribbean to the U.S. east coast and is now a depression dumping heavy rains in eastern Canada before it heads into the Atlantic. Satellite ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 30, 2011
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A team at the Stanford University School of Medicine has cataloged, down to the letter, exactly what parts of the genetic code are essential for survival in one bacterial species, Caulobacter crescentus.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 30, 2011
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While the remnants of Hurricane Irene drench Quebec and Newfoundland, Canada today, NASA satellites are keeping tabs on two other tropical cyclones in the Atlantic: Tropical Storm Jose and newly formed Tropical Depression ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 30, 2011
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One of the world's strangest animals – a unique fish that lives on land and can leap large distances despite having no legs – has a rich and complex social life, a new study has found.
Plants & Animals
Aug 30, 2011
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Efforts to build larger wind turbines able to capture more energy from the air are stymied by the weight of blades. A Case Western Reserve University researcher has built a prototype blade that is substantially lighter and ...
Engineering
Aug 30, 2011
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"What do I remember about an earthquake? I was in the 7th grade. All of a sudden the floor just started shaking. Desks were falling over. Kids were falling on the ground. It was so scary. It happened so quickly!"
Earth Sciences
Aug 30, 2011
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While Hurricane Irene had officials along the East Coast preparing for mass evacuations, scientists at the Stroud Water Research Center and the University of Delaware were grabbing their best data collection tools and heading ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 30, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Lingering impacts of the Great Recession could include long-term stress, behavioral problems and economic hardship among children of the unemployed, according to researchers at the University of Chicago. ...
Social Sciences
Aug 30, 2011
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